On Friday the day had come around for our gig that we planned to get pretty much the rest of our filming done, because we would have the band, crowd and a venue all ready to go. There was a slight problem before-hand with the times because they had double booked us with somebody else but this only meant that we had to change the time to an hour later and make sure everyone was aware of this. We got there about 45minutes earlier than we told people to get there so that us and the band had time to set up. In this time we also got a number of shots that we wanted of the close ups of the instruments being played however it was at this point that we found out that the band who originally did the song couldn't make it, but Ryan had found out before and organised some other people to come and play the song, so it wasn't a complete disaster. After this we managed to encounter another problem which was that the drum kit had to be back in an hour meaning we couldn't film any shots of the band with the crowd in one shot like we'd hoped because the kit would have to be back by the time people got there, so we decided to do any shots with drums first.
We started off with Ryan playing the drums the whole way through the song (with headphones in playing the track so that he was definitly in time with it when it comes to editing) and me getting several different angles so that we have a variety to cut through when editing, these angles included a close up of the foot pedal, close up of both of his feet on the pedals, a close up of the toms, medium shot of all the toms and a cymbal, close up of the bigger cymbal, close up of the high-hat and a medium shot of the whole kit.
For the lead guitar, shots included a close up of the strings being strummed by the pick-ups, a close up of notes being played on the fretboard, a shot of the whole guitar and another close up by the pick-ups when individual strings were being played, whilst he was playing the song through i moved between these different shots depending on the part of the song so that we have some nice bits to cut to.
This was pretty much the same for the bass guitar however i added in a couple of different angles like being positioned at the end of the guitar and looking up at the rest of it which is quite a nice shot and also one looking down on the guitar as well, we liked this one because you could just see some of the cable leading to the amp in the top corner of the frame which gives it a bit more of a gig feel. We couldn't do the vocals because Tim, who was going to be miming, didn't want to do it in front of people as they had started to arrive, but we didn't think this would be too bad as we could just get the close ups in college somwhere because you won't see the setting.
Now as for the rest of the filming, we came across another huge problem. There wasn't enough people to make the place look quite full and resemble a gig. From the amount of people that had got back to us and said they would go combined with the amount of people who had been invited by other people, we thought we would have plenty of people. We did what we could with the amount of people by getting them to all squash together a bit in one space close to the stage so that when we filmed them you couldn't see the empty space in the back and it just looked like there was alot of people there. These shots weren't too bad however, we feel we could do much better and now have an idea to go to a local band's gig and get some shots of the crowd there.
I think the main point we took from all this is to organise everything so much more and in detail so that we are prepared for anything that might go wrong. For example if we had properly sorted out where we were getting equipment from before-hand we would of been able to organise things around this to make sure we could film certain things in time.
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